Christopher Moore's History News

History (mostly Canadian), a little politics (ditto), and the Tour de France in July.

Friday, June 27, 2025

Janet Ajzenstat (1936-2025) RIP: political philosopher

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Unlike most of the prominent historians of Confederation (and virtually all of the political scientists), Janet Ajzenstat grasped (and conve...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Who gets to write history

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Moi? This morning I read in a Toronto Star op-ed by pollster Allan Gregg how: Wilfrid Laurier won the 1911 election by rejecting the Conser...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

When historians go bad

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  Timothy Garton Ash on the newly elected President of Poland Nawrocki is a 42-year-old nationalist historian and historical propagandist wi...
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

A Short History of Death UPDATED

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Ruth Compton Brouwer's recent article in the Journal of Canadian Studies ,  “'[L]ike a page from history'? A Half-Century of De...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Moving pictures from Canada a century ago

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We get mail, in this case from David Sobel:   I wanted to share my website The Moving Past which has been in operation for a few months now...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

We are the Derek Gee of Canadian History Blogs

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Christopher Moore's History News --  the site you are reading right now --  has been ranked #3 i n a new listing of 25 Best Canadian His...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Giro d'Italia Notes

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For all of you not following every twist and turn of the Giro d'Italia 2025, now two weeks into the three-week race: news flash: Canadia...
Friday, May 23, 2025

History of Decline and Fall?

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  Paul Krugman states what the vital American issue is : The question is what happens if investors change their minds — if they decide that ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

History of Marie Dressler at the DCB

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No one is old enough to remember Marie Dressler in her movie days.  She's famous in Canada as an early Canadian star, and familiar to ol...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Imaginary problems of Canadian constitutional history

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Emmett Macfarlane, in his SubStack "Defending Canadian Democracy" declares " It's time for a centralization movement in C...

Emerging Historians in Toronto

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Spacing magazine, the Toronto-centric magazine about urbanism , civic culture, and the built environment, has a nice little feature in the ...

History of soft power

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While out walking over the weekend, I happened to catch a recent episode of "The Rest is Politics" -- two clever and well-informed...
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